Physics Semester 2 Exam Review Problems

Chapter 8:

1. A piece of metal weighs 75.0 N in air, 45.0 N in water, and 61.0 N in an unknown liquid.
Find the densities of the following:

a. The metal ___________Kg / m^3

b. The unknown liquid___________ kg / m^3

3. A ferry boat is 14.0 m wide and 26.0 m long. When a truck pulls onto it, the boat sinks
1.00 cm in the water. What is the weight of the truck?

a. _________________N

Chapter 9:

3. Brass is an alloy made from copper and zinc. A 14 kg brass sample at 95 degrees Celsius
is dropped into 12.80 kg of water at 15 degrees Celsius. If the equilibrium temperature is
20 degrees C, what is the specific heat capacity of brass?

a. ____________________ J/kg (deg. C)

6. How much energy is required to heat 350g of water from 75 deg. C to 80 deg. C ?

a. __________________ J
Chapter 10:

2. Gas is enclosed in a container fitted with a piston. The applied pressure is maintained at
60kPa as the piston moves outward which changes the volume of the gas from 3x10^-4
m cubed to 4x10^-4 m cubed.

a. How much work is done? Work = ______________________ J

b. Is the work done on the gas or by the gas? _________________

4. Heat is added to a system, and the system does 50J of work. If the internal energy
increases by 3J, how much heat was added to the system?

a. Heat added = _______________________ J

5. The internal energy of the gas in a gasoline engine’s cylinder increases by 20J. If the 75J
of work is done by the gas, how much energy is transferred as heat? Is the energy added
or removed from the gas?

a. a. Energy transferred = _______________ J

b. b. Added or removed from gas? = ___________________

8. A steam engine absorbs 7x10^3 J and expels 1.5x10^3 J in each cycle. Assume that all of
the remaining energy is used to do work.

a. a. What is the engine’s efficiency? Efficiency = ___________________ %

b. How much work is done each cycle? Work = ___________________ J

Chapter 11 - 12:

2. When a mass of 10g is attached to a certain spring, it makes 15 complete vibrations (or
cycles) in 4s.

a. What is the spring constant? ____________________ N/m

 6. What is the intensity of a sound emitted from a 40W speaker at 3 meters?

a._________________ W/m^2

Chapter 13:

1. Gamma ray bursters are objects in the universe that emit pulses of gamma rays with
high energies. The frequency of the most energetic bursts has been measured at
2x10^18 Hz. What is the wavelength of these rays?

a. _________________m

2. How many times brighter/dimmer would the sun appear to an observer on Earth if the
sun were 5 times farther from Earth than it actually is?

a. Dimmer Brighter (Circle one)

b. _________________ times brighter

3. A concave shaving mirror has a focal length of 20 cm.

a. Calculate the image position of a bottle placed in front of the mirror at a

distance of 70 cm.

_____________________ cm

b. Calculate the magnification of the image. ________________

c. Is the image: (circle one) real or virtual inverted or upright

d. Draw a ray diagram to show where the image forms and how large it is with
respect to the object.

1. Incoming light makes an angle of 20.0 degrees with the normal, and the refracted ray
makes an angle of 10.0 degrees with the normal. Find the index of refraction of the
transparent material. (assume the index of refraction of air is 1.00)

a. n = _____________________
 3. Complete the following table for the indicated lenses:

a. Convergent Lens

F P Q M Real/virtual
12cm 3cm ? ? ?

b. Divergent Lens

F P Q M Real/virtual
-15cm 4cm ? ? ?

Chapter 15:

1. A double slit interference experiment is performed with blue-green light from an argon-
gas laser. The separation between the slits is 0.25 mm, and the first – order maximum of
the interference pattern is at an angle of 0.09 degrees from the center of the pattern.
What is the wavelength of argon laser light?

a. ________________ m

Chapter 16:

1. Two identical conducting spheres are placed with their centers 0.50 apart. One is given a
charge of +7uC (micro coulombs) and the other is given a charge of -5uC. Find the
electric force exerted by one sphere on the other.

a._________________ N

2. A proton and an electron in a hydrogen atom are separated on the average by about
8x10^-11 m. What is the magnitude and direction of the electric field set up by the
proton at the position of the electron?

a. ___________________N/C
3. Three point charges, q1, q2, q3, lie along the x-axis at x=0, x=4, and x=7 cm, respectively.
Calculate the magnitude and direction of the electric force on q3 when q1 = +6.0uC, q2 =
+5uC, and q3 = -5.0uC.

a. _________________ N

4. A proton is released above the Earth’s surface. An electron directly above it exerts just
enough of an electric force on the proton to cancel the gravitational force on it. Find the
 distance between the proton and the electron.

a. _________________ m

6. As a particle moves 7.0m along an electric field of strength 55 N/C, its electrical potential
energy increases by 5x10^-16 J.

a. What is the particle’s charge? _______________C

b. What is the potential difference between the initial and final locations of the
particle? ___________V

8. You are asked to design a parallel plate capacitor having a capacitance of 0.3F and a
plate separation of 1 cm. Calculate the required surface area of each plate?

a. _______________m^2

Chapter 17:

1. If the current in a 1.7 ohm CD player is 7nA,

a. How long would it take for 0.5C of charge to pass through a cross-sectional
area of this wire?
_________________ s

b. How many electrons will have passed through the wire in that time?

i. _________________ e

c. What is the voltage of the CD battery?

ii. _________________ V

d. How many watts does the CD use?

iii. _________________ W

6. How much does it cost to watch the Super Bowl (3.7 hours) on a 100W Plasma TV?
Assume that electrical energy costs $0.27 / kWh

$ ___________________
Chapter 18 & 20:

2. Calculate the Power, Voltage, and Current for each of the resistors in the circuit below:

Resistor Current Voltage Power

A 35 ohms
B 15 ohms
C 10 ohms
Circuit total

2. A circular wire loop with a diameter of 0.5 m is located in an external magnetic field of
strength +0.55 T that is perpendicular to the plane of the loop. The field strength
changes to -0.35 T in 1.5 s. (the plus and minus signs for a magnetic field refer to
opposite directions through the coil.) Find the magnitude of the average induced emf
during this interval.

a. _____________________ Volts

3. A step-up transformer used in an automobile has a potential difference across the

primary of 12 V and a potential difference across the secondary of 3x10^4 V. If the
number of turns in the primary is 25, what is the number of turns in the secondary?

a. ________________ Turns

Chapter 21:

3. It is found that incident protons with energy 15.00 eV will produce electrons with a
maximum kinetic energy of 7 eV. What is the threshold frequency of this material?

a. __________________ Hz
 4. Light of Wavelength 5 um falls on a copper surface, and the ejected photo-electrons
have a maximum kinetic energy of 0.07 eV. What is the work function of the copper?
What is the threshold frequency for copper?

a.__________________ eV b. _________________ Hz

6. What is the de Broglie wavelength of a 100 kg linebacker travelling at 43 km/h?

a. _________________ m

7. The radius of the Helium atom at ground state is r1 = 7x10^-10m. What is the radius of
the third electron shell?

a. _________________ m

8. Radiation emitted from a Sherman tank after a battle reaches its peak at wavelength =
500 um.

a. a. What is the frequency of this radiation? _______________ Hz

b. b. What type of electromagnetic waves are these? _________________

c. c. How much energy (in electron volts) is carried by one quantum of this radiation?
______________ eV

Last problem and Extra credit: complete both a and b or c, and any extra work is extra credit

a. Draw and Label a heat pump

b. Draw a ray diagram for the question in chapter 13

c. Draw, label, and explain the TECO power system

d. Discuss what you liked and disliked about the semester

Done!!!!!